document.write( "Question 646156: estimate the total distance you can travel in 4 hours 55 minutes if you drive on average 42 miles per hour. give your answer in whole miles \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "The other tutor doesn't understand that the idea here is to learn how\r\n" );
document.write( "to ESTIMATE answers quickly in your head without a calculator, not to do \r\n" );
document.write( "them accurately as he did.  The idea is to get a ballpark answer.\r\n" );
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document.write( "4 hours 55 minutes is a little less than 5 hours and 42 miles per hour is\r\n" );
document.write( "a little more than 40 miles per hours, so it's got be somwhere around \r\n" );
document.write( "40×5 or 200 miles.  You don't need a calculator to do that in your\r\n" );
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document.write( "Estimate = 200 miles.\r\n" );
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